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Show DOCTOR'S WIFE' GOOD WITNESS ( Freoport, L. 1., July It. Mrst Edwin, Carman, wife of Dr. 'Carman, of this city, and her husband lioth testified at tho coroner's lnr.icHt Into tho deuth of Mrs. Louise Unlley. Mrs. Ballsy, a patient ot tho doctor doc-tor was shot and killed by a person who broke a pano In the window ot tho physician's olllce nnd fired thin It from the outside. Mrs. Carman, without a uhungo of color or a perceptible tremor, stood In tho magistrate's court and saw Georgo Golder point to her as 'the woman he saw downstairs In the Carman Car-man home live minutes before "the murder. He said she was fully dressed. dress-ed. The doctor's office adjoins bis residence. Mrs. Carman swore that she had been In her bedroom undressed andj lying on the bed tor an hour before the shooting. Mrs. Ida Powell, her sister, who Uvcb at (he Carman home, corroborated her statement. District Attorney Smith attacked, Mrs. Carman's story for the full ljour she was on tho stand 'out failed to shake her composure. s Each Tells Different 8tory v The doctor declared sho was drbs-ed drbs-ed all In white, tho evening of th murder. Mrs. Carman testlded 'bhe wore a blue suit before she went up-, stairs to 116 down. , Dr. Carman swore he did not see his wife In his olllce nfter the shoot lng and that ho did not know where sho was boforo tho shot was fired. Golder, however swears that not only was Mrs. Carman downstairs Immediately Immedi-ately before tho shot was fired, but that she was In the offlco of the doctor doc-tor a few minutes nfter the murder. Mrs. Carman denied Bhe entered the, olllce nfter the shot was fired. Dr. Carman First Witness Dr. Carman was tho first witness. Ho denied that his wife had been in tho office after tho shooting. Ho might have seen her in tho waiting room, ho said. Ho saw her next upstairs, up-stairs, ho said, Rafter everything had quieted down." "Who let Mrs. Bailey Into the houbo?" tho d'strlct attorney asked., "I do not know," the physician ro-piled. ro-piled. Dr. Carman said he remembered on one occasion that Mrs. Carman happed' on the offlco window while Miss Ilerlns, a nurse, was In tho office. of-fice. Sho domanded to be ndmltted He let her In, hnd sho said: "This Is a fine piece of business for a married man and a woman to be exchanging money," The witness exp'alned that he had given the nurse $16 as a loan and added that he had loaned her mone beforq. Wife Slaps Nurse's Face Dr. Carman said his wife demanded demand-ed the money from tho nurse and received re-ceived it. Closely questioned, he admitted that his wife had slapped the nurse's face. The affair occurre'd he said, about 8 o'clock in the evening. even-ing. Mrs. Carman, he said, had been looking through the same window through which Mrs. Bailey was shot ' After tho nurse left, he said, he told his wife that the next time she spied on him all would be over between be-tween them. Dr. Carman said ythe dictagraph to his wife's room was Installed, In-stalled, according to her, a few days after the quarrel with the nurse. Dressed All In Whit District Attorney Smith asked how bis wife was dressed when he saw her downstairs before the murder. "All In white," answered the physician. phy-sician. He added that he thought his wife was dressed In n kimono' when he saw her upstairs some time, after the police had, arrived. Archie Post, a patient, who whs In the waiting room when the shot was fired, testified that the only person he heard go up or down the stairs was tho daughter ot Dr. Carman. Later, he continued, the girl started to practice on the pihno. A volce- he did not know whose called to her from the porch saying: "Don't play that piano now." About eight minutes later, the witness wit-ness testified he heard the 'tinkle of-breaking of-breaking glass and then the report, of a revolver. He dashed out ot the houso and looked toward the broken window, but saw nobody. Dressed In Blue, Wife Says' s Mrs. Carman was dressed, she testified, tes-tified, as she was today In a blue tailor made sulh Mrs. Carman denied sho' whs on the front porch or the front steps at any time after sho returned from New York on tho day of the murder. Sho was In her room lying ncross the bed, Bhe said, until sho heard a contusion of noises. Sho heard g'tiss breaking nnd a plBtol shot, but sho did not know which noise Bho heard 'first. She Jumped up immediately. Attack on'Carman Alleged attempts on the life of Dr. Edwin Carman nnd W. P. Huff, Indicated, In-dicated, somo say that- n maniac mny be nt liberty in this vicinity and contradictory evidence at tho inquest in-quest has ndded to tho mystery of the shooting of Mrs. Louis Bailey In,i Dr. Carman's office. Drl Carman reported that a man on a bicycle fired threo shots at him whllo ho was auto driving Sunday near Lynnhurst with Garland Gader, an actor, ills automobile was not oven hit, however. The polico are Investigating tho story. Today Huff notified tho polico that a shot also had been fired at him Sunday night. He exhibited a dent In his automobile as proof. Many profess to believe now that It was this same man that'shdt Mrs. Bailey. The polico" still maintain that It was a woman who killed Mrs. Bailey. ' |